Rake VS Trollop

btw, I use Rake to make the setup the proper symlinks to my dotfiles repository. Maybe I'll write about that one day.

Some competitors - Rake (ruby) - Bake - Earthly - SCons - doit

where every argument except the name can either be missing, single (value) or multiple (array). Sure, it has the "advantage" that it's syntactically valid Ruby code, but it then requires some 70 lines of awful code to actually parse that data into a usable construct ([1] up to L145).

[1] https://github.com/ruby/rake/blob/7b50e9dc37abc57fd365c16cb1...

Rake[0] is still the best ‘make-like’ build tool I’ve used for general purpose stuff. The syntax is nice and it’s just Ruby which is a delight. I briefly used Mage (similar, but Go) and it was fine too.

[0]: https://github.com/ruby/rake

Yup! Two well-established alternatives are "rake", in the Ruby community, and "just" in the Rust community.

Rake is fully programmable in Ruby. Just is a bit less flexible, but it doesn't require learning Ruby, and it's quite pleasant to use.

https://ruby.github.io/rake/

Rake is a great way to homogenize and declare common behaviors of your script (called "tasks"); a guide.

In Ruby there's a gem named Rake. This gem provides a DSL to create tasks to be run from the command line. A small example looks like this:

I think you're referring to Rake. https://ruby.github.io/rake/

We use [Rake](https://github.com/ruby/rake) instead - it's awesome.

My favorite is probably trollop but I haven’t needed to write a cli in years. Clap is also great, but the best I’ve used is probably Click which is saying something because I absolutely hate Python. Also deploying is a completely separate problem from which library is best. Click is by far the worst to deploy, then Clap, then trollop.